Sheriff Deputies & DA Investigators Get to Rate Their Leaders
By NORBERTO SANTANA JR.
Voice of OC
Orange County Sheriff’s deputies will soon get a chance to do something most people would love to do.
Rate their bosses.
The Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs, the union representing more than 2,000 deputies and district attorney investigators, last week launched a survey aimed at allowing rank-and-file law enforcement officers to rate their own chain of command.
“AOCDS is providing you with the valuable opportunity to hold the managers of the Sheriff’s Department accountable for their leadership and overall performance,” read a Nov. 29 letter from the union’s board of directors, which accompanied a survey looking into lieutenants, captains, commanders, assistant sheriffs and directors at the agency.
Rank and file investigators for the Orange County District Attorney’s office also will also get to rate their commanders and assistant chiefs.
Department leaders will be rated on integrity, trustworthiness, communication, proaction, innovation, collaboration and caring. Specific comments on managers also will be sought.
The survey ends Dec. 12 and will be published in January both on the AOCDS website and in their monthly print publication, The Courier.
“The members of our association have a deep interest in improving their departments,” said AOCDS President Tom Dominguez. “This survey provides an unprecedented opportunity for the rank-and-file to provide candid and constructive feedback on the men and women who are responsible for overseeing the operations of the Sheriff’s Department and the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation.”
